CSM Campaigns

Space reserved for posting answers to questions posed.

Some questions from my Reddit AMA: http://www.reddit.com/r/Eve/comments/21uf75/csm9_campaign_announcement_im_awoxing/

what do you think of annual moon reshuffling? Would it make 0.0 more dynamic?

actual serious, personal opinion: The occasional moon or resource shuffling won't help relieve the current tedium of null anymore because the current technetium is basically "serfs" renters, and as long as you give them a static place to stay, they aren't going anywhere. Then you get agreements like CFC and PL to not bother each other's renters. Even if moons reshuffled, unless the dynamic resources gave stupid isk (which renting already does anyhow), I'm sure that the renting cartels would rather just sit on their butts doing very little and have people pay them for usage of space. -Additional: It's not their fault, the game mechanics make it very easy and profitable to do so-

The key lies in changing sov mechanics. The nature of timers, structure grinding, cramming everyone into one system or grid for massive battles instead of having what I felt like was a shining example of how strategic Eve could be, when the CFC recently wanted to maintain their hellcamp while at the same time defending 3 CSAAs. We need sov mechanics that encourage multiple defensive structure timers across several systems that grants or takes away different sov bonuses that are worthwhile to hit and promote strategic movement instead of dumping maximum dudes and capitals onto one grid battle and hoping to not lag out, crash the node, toil in beyond maximum tidi, or face endless warp/cyno tunnels.

I'm not a professional game designer but sov needs changes to the entire sov system to make 0.0 more dynamic, and annual moon reshuffling feels like a cheap, stopgap and gamey measure.

What are your goals to change things in eve?

We need more practical minded CSM that are prepared to work with CCP on achievable goals. I feel as though while the recent CSM has overseen quite a number of useful long term Eve goals fleshed out with new features and changes to legacy code as well as some nice quick changes to the UI for player happiness, there hasn't been much communication between the CSM and your average player. Recently I feel as though we've seen some members of CSM go out of their way to forgo diplomatic methods and put CCP in a difficult position with their playerbase and the media.

Why is your Local Chat not a separate window?

Lately I have only flown cloaky stabbed interceptors to scout ~opsec~ so local doesn't really need its own pane ... Besides the whole lacking probing thing, a cloaky interceptor makes forward spying/scouting trivially easy, and basically no ridiculous bubblecamp or amount of campers can catch it. It really outclasses covops in spying, sadly, as the only real threat to covops are major bubble camps.

Who says he isn't a Goon spai?

I must admit that GIA and I performing IP checks on each other while we use vpns always elicits Benny Hill in my mind. -Additional- Would me saying that I'm not a goon spy convince you that I'm not a goon spy? I can guarantee that I'm not the Mittani as I had to send in passport ID proof to CCP to be able to run.

What awoxing have you done?

I can't support you if you haven't lived up to your name.

https://zkillboard.com/character/93798609/

Do you support Erotica 1's candidacy?

Supporting Erotica 1's candidacy at this point is a bit like propping up a ragnarok-sized tampon that has absorbed all the tears shed in Eve over its 10 year history now, isn't it?

Are you really ex-pizza/pasta?

Ex-pizza, yes. Pasta? Not yet.

What do you like and dislike about wormholes that you would advocate on behalf of wspace?

Likes: I feel as though flying through J-space, without local, is the true Eve experience of exploration, searching for riches in the unknown, and although most of us experienced whers are bored to the point of madness of escalations and sites we love it in there but we just want more things to do besides murder anyone that comes in.

Dislikes: Have you ever managed a pos?

Do you feel that Lucky Charms in the current meta are overpowered? what are your thoughts on balancing Raisin Brand, and to a lesser extent Captain Crunch to be more in-line with other breakfast cereals.

I think Amarr are OP because they could see why kids love the taste of Cinnamon Toast Crunch since they are constantly chewing up Minmatar rust buckets.

I'm assuming this is a joke candidate.

For the name, you'll get a spot (below Psychotic Monk and a couple others) on my ballot.

Hello almost John Madden-corp BRAVE friend,

The timing could have been better, but there were some external issues preventing the verification of my ability to run. I'm glad just to be on the ballot given the nature of things, I've noticed that a few high profile names have had to drop their candidacy.

I was also pretty stubborn on not announcing my running if I was, in fact, not going to run. Consider it a means of promise keeping. There were a few close chums who had prior knowledge regarding my bid to run for CSM but they are also sworn to secrecy.

As for your question on public scrutiny, I do think that it is important for the community to hold CSM candidates to their own standards. For example, there are some that would say that they will only support someone from their corp or coalition, no one from another side of New Eden, that they refuse to support someone from a different eve online "profession", or different security status space. Those are all valid reasons, although I do not entirely agree. It is my belief that we should vote based on the candidates enthusiasm to pursue and enact positive change on behalf of the community while not causing any major issues.

The late post hinders public scrutiny of myself somewhat, since if the community had more time to get to know me, they would find that my passion for the game and metagame and joining CSM runs much further than "joke candidate with the funny name".

how willing are you to blueshoot ccp devs if you're provided with a watergun and food coloring before the summits

Literally a better candidate than Xenuria